2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A study of the syntax-phonology interface with phonetic data
| Project/Area Number |
18520388
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Sapporo University |
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Principal Investigator |
TOKIZAKI Hisao Sapporo University, 外国語学部, 教授 (20211394)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2009
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| Keywords | プロソディ / 談話 / ポーズ / ピッチ / 統語構造 |
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| Research Abstract |
I discussed how the semantics of conjunctions affects prosody across clauses/sentences. Nespor and Vogel (1986) observe that phonological rules across sentences may apply when there exists a positive semantic relation (i.e., and, therefore, because) between two sentences.
The question is whether a positive semantic relation universally helps to join two prosodic domains. I conducted experiments to see whether this is the case in English and Japanese. The result shows that in English, a positive semantic relation helps to join two prosodic domains, but a negative semantic relation does not. However, in Japanese, two prosodic domains were more detached in the examples of positive semantic relations than in those of negative semantic relations. I discussed syntactic brackets, word/morpheme status of conjunctives and the semantic closeness of negative relations.
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